Meebo’s Apple iPhone chat client

Another day, another bit of iPhone "software." Today we’ve got Meebo’s customized iPhone chat client for you. It’s a pretty great "app", incorporating chat support for AIM, MSN, Google Talk, and Yahoo. It orders your buddy list according to your most recent conversations, and scales nicely in both landscape and portrait mode. Pretty nice. It seems stable and incorporates all of the features one expects in a mobile chat client, executed with Meebo’s trademark slickness. All told, we’re excited about it. No special monkey codes, just point your Mobile Safari browser over to http://www.meebo.com, and you’re in. That said, we’d still love to see an actual chat client from Apple. The limitations of a browser based chat experience are at best annoying and at worst prohibitive. Come on, Apple….iChat, iChat, iChat. Say it with us now.

UPDATE: BG here, and while Meebo looks like nice and is pretty quick, an issue we found right off the bat was that it doesn’t reconnect automatically. Basically when your device locks, you’ll get disconnected and signed off. I’m sticking to JiveTalk…

i just used this for about 10 mins…its actually very easy to use and i kinda forgot it was a web app. I found a little trick too….If you use two fingers you can scroll the conversation. Using only 1 finger just bounces the entire page.

kuduo’s to Meebo…(or neebo Josh)

victor

This should be slick when using this on a pc it is really easy and very responsive so not surprised that they would develop this and have good results.

http://www.billsden.org Bill Taroli

iChat? Why would I want to limit myself that way? I already can have myself on 7 different chat networks at once on the likes of Causerie and Mundu on the Treo… so I personally think the chant should be… SDK! SDK! SDK! Let the third party developers do their magic and give us native apps. We know they want to… they’re already looking for ways to work /around/ Apple and do it already.

http://www.cdrum.com Chris D

What about other high-end smartphone – like S60v3 phones? It would be nice to have a meebo client for those…

http://www.mighty55.com jordan Robinson

how about http://www.mundu.com . I have heard some good things about that chat client. SOme minor issues but it’s supposed to be pretty descent.